I believe it's because of school. A lot of people are starting that up around now.

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But the problem that arrives from that is if only 2-3 people enter on each round, is it still worth doing?

_________________Life isn't the kindest mistress. She will do anthing and everything to break you and to try and force you to fall victim to her cruelty. You can't, however, let her win, for when you give up and succumb to life's cruelties, that is when you die as a person. Those who keep fighting, even if they are fighting a battle they can't win, are the people who truly succeed, because success isn't measured in how well you do in the end. It's measured in how hard you fight to get to where you are.

Problem with pushing it back to Monday is I work Mondays, so judging would be tough for me (I know I haven't judged for a few rounds, but I had a rather important project that had to come first over this).

_________________Life isn't the kindest mistress. She will do anthing and everything to break you and to try and force you to fall victim to her cruelty. You can't, however, let her win, for when you give up and succumb to life's cruelties, that is when you die as a person. Those who keep fighting, even if they are fighting a battle they can't win, are the people who truly succeed, because success isn't measured in how well you do in the end. It's measured in how hard you fight to get to where you are.

I didn't enter last week because I was busy, I'm still interested in competing. One suggestion I have is to possibly advertise this contest on the YouTube channel again, I've noticed a lot of people on YouTube don't even realize the forums exist. I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but the video that was posted in May could have been done better, it didn't give the viewers any reason to join the contest other than 'You earn points to get prizes'. (Also you sounded really mad in the video, LlamaMinister. Like Silver had just eaten your last cookie or something.) Make a point to advertise the contest as a place for your work to be critiqued in a similar fashion to Pixel Art in Review, and that it's a great way to test out and improve your skills with spriting.

But yeah, I could have done a much better job doing the voice over, I admit. But I have been working on that (which is actually why I've been busy). I wouldn't be opposed to advertising it again, or maybe even posting some of the results and showing some of the highest graded sprites each month, which would also give people more incentive to take part and do good.

_________________Life isn't the kindest mistress. She will do anthing and everything to break you and to try and force you to fall victim to her cruelty. You can't, however, let her win, for when you give up and succumb to life's cruelties, that is when you die as a person. Those who keep fighting, even if they are fighting a battle they can't win, are the people who truly succeed, because success isn't measured in how well you do in the end. It's measured in how hard you fight to get to where you are.

And as far as videos go..at least with the announcement, we got a lot of people the first round or so who made C quality sprites, and then they left. I also think so many people submit to PAIR purely because they get to be in a video.

I was thinking I could reach out to people on neoseeker.. but that contest there died several years ago already- all the people who participated might have already moved on.

..Also when I did make round update videos nobody cared >.<

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That's why I think we should do a monthly review of this. We can feature sprites directly, instead of just saying who won, and scrolling through the list of what was submitted.

_________________Life isn't the kindest mistress. She will do anthing and everything to break you and to try and force you to fall victim to her cruelty. You can't, however, let her win, for when you give up and succumb to life's cruelties, that is when you die as a person. Those who keep fighting, even if they are fighting a battle they can't win, are the people who truly succeed, because success isn't measured in how well you do in the end. It's measured in how hard you fight to get to where you are.

Ehhh, that kind of defeats the purpouse of the contest - to challange you by having you do sprites you otherwise wouldn't do. And you basicly already have that simply by submiting to the Pixel Art section of the forum

LlamaMinister wrote: I wouldn't be opposed to advertising it again, or maybe even posting some of the results and showing some of the highest graded sprites each month, which would also give people more incentive to take part and do good.

Maybe your personal favorites or something. I think this would bring up the contest and the forum in general.